Spotlight on Toronto’s Manifesto Festival

After a summer of looking at the Euro based Hip Hop scene we swing back over to North American soil and visit the city of Toronto. Now going onto it's 6th yr the Manifesto Festival has been providing an ama...

The Next Path To Hip Hop Relevance?

Without question we know the people can't get enough singing competitions. The networks steady string of musical face offs have become a staple of "reality" entertainment. Now the Hood to Hood series partnere...

Rock The Bells 2012 Re-Cap

While Jay-Z was rocking Philly for the “Made In America” festival during their two-day festival series over the weekend, Rock The Bells was rocking in Holmdel, New Jersey's PNC Bank Arts Center durig t...

Great Loss in the Hip Hop Family….RIP Chris Lighty

Yesterday the Hip Hop community lost one of the most successful, most fluential and inspiration men in the game as we all learned of Chris Lighty's untimely passing. As Hip Hop attempts to grasp the magnitu...

Brooklyn Welcomes New Hip Hop Themed Hotel BPM

There is really no aspect of life that Hip Hop hasn't infiltrated so the realization of a Hip Hop hotel was more so a matter of when not if. Dj Bilal has brought the chic new hotem BPM (Beat Per Minute) to Bro...